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9/15/2014 4:05PM

Thousands of Immigrants May Lose Health Insurance

Tens of thousands of people are likely to lose their health insurance by Sept. 30, because they missed a deadline to confirm they are legally residing in the U.S. Janet Adamy reports on the News Hub with Sara Murray. Photo: Getty.

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... breaking news this afternoon at tens of thousands of immigrants are set to lose their health care coverage later this month ... because they miss the deadline to confirm there in the U S legally ... this is your Monday news have I'm Sara Mary ... the latest is that sparked yet another round of controversy over the Affordable Care Act twenty and settling this is WSJ's health care and attention Anatomy ... Jerry Acer being here ... my pleasure so its lead to what's going on why are all these people at risk of losing their health care coverage ... the administration had said in August that ... that is several hundred thousand folks have not officially submitted the right paperwork in order to prove that their legal ... US residents at entitled to gain health insurance coverage to the Affordable Care Act's exchanges to people who enroll for health care that God there is having some problems that the site ... that made it difficult for the federal government Siemens and to verify that these people were in fact ... legally here in the US estimates and sent out a warning in August saying look you gotta send this ... on you know passports person to think it's those kinds of days if you don't what contact your insurance coverage by September thirty s and set a September deadline for that one out there saying if the deadline is coming on their still hundred and fifteen thousand people who didn't send in the right paperwork and they're essentially those people essentially the deadline is coming not in those people ... the federal government is high and the insurance companies that will probably need to cut out the cupboards at the end of this month and a sensitivity even another round of cost coming after a day sitting in history thus have right now you know there's another round of income verification that are coming down the pipeline how does that work ... that that that that were a little bit different and there's still time for those folks ... to get the proper documentation and there's about two hundred and eighty thousand Americans ... who the federal government had gotten a proper verification how much money they earn mean ... that's important because if you're a lower or you may be getting a tax credit to offset the ... cost your coverage in the federal government saying look we need income data from you ... by the end of this month their interest would necessarily be cut out that they can be at risk of having a subsidy ... the it be in jeopardy essentially so those people saw the same time it's the folks who are then did they emigrate store in a real buying securities that deadline has come and gone and yet we talk about something like this how much is this is the kind of thing you would expect from any large government benefits program that there's been a decent back and forth and see this amazing data that confirmed what income Mia when you come back the year and a one-year legal status is ... versus problems are caused because Healthcare dot Gov was such oh you know kind of a disaster ... he I think that you know certainly the fact that the website had so many technological problems hasn't helped its made this worse ... but to some extent but this is going to happen when you have a brand new large federal program to wear a tee Tessa said they are they are working on setting up a pathway ... for some of those immigrants to re enroll in our coverage however it still is still continues in and look past recent immigration groups which Warren ... knew they had warned that it was not enough time for people to get ... to get the proper paperwork again ALM so that the notices were sent ... didn't appear to be up and take to some consume areas ... and snows and to some extent this was some unexpected by the groups that were representing immigrants like the new look and the advocates of this lot there were a lot of low income on low income group advocates immigration advocates if any of these and these are the ten programs to help new immigrants in the U S legally low income families ... is this the her support for the model ... I think ... getting there been so many various technological glitches along the way I feed you do have some terrific war advocates who were probably say this is just one more frustration than a wooden expects ... people they essentially backed down in turn against the law at this point um I think that's worth keeping in mind this is really only applies to legal U S immigrants folks who are illegally in the U S they're not allowed to get any type of insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act right and that's really good when I that series up I'm WS J dot com thanks for joining us ...